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CSS Bugs and Workarounds

If you are having problems accessing this document with Netscape
3, please utilize the link just above. Problems have been
reported with an error message 'Transfer interrupted!'. We
apologize, but have no other suggestion for access.

Bugs which are bad enough to make content illegible are shown
with this background , and italicized
print.

The 'bugs' are arranged by browser version, in reverse
chronological order by release date. Bugs which have been fixed
have been removed to a separate page .

If your platform isn't listed, it does *not* mean that the bug
doesn't exist on it; it just means that no one has _reported_
that it is a bug on that platform. Please help make this a better
resource by including platform information when reporting a bug.

Interminable discussions on the CSS
newsgroup have revolved around implementation problems
and 'workarounds'. This summary is an attempt to provide the
collective wisdom gleaned from those posts. No exhaustive attempt
is made to describe elements that are unsupported. Reference for
such elements should be to the Master Grid provided by Eric
Meyer at Webreview.

The suggestion has been made that users of IE3 disable style
sheets because of the probability that carelessly authored CSS
will render documents illegible to them. Unfortunately for IE3
users, the problem will escalate, as better CSS implementations
are released. The choice of browser is yours to make, but you
need to accept that one or more of the buggy Descriptions
detailed below will eventually result in your inability to read
the content of a document in which you are interested. In the
spirit of graceful degradation, you should be able to understand
the all-important content if you disable style sheets. In the
best of all worlds, first generation implementations would have
all been perfect - welcome to reality.

Deletions will be gleefully accepted; additions will be
reluctantly included. Please send corrections to the CSS Pointers
Group . Please file bug reports, even if you think
someone else may have already filed. Let's do our utmost to get
the attention of the vendors, so that we can all realize our goal
of delivering the best CSS to everyone.

Without research by CSS authors like Eric Meyer, Braden McDaniel,
and David Baron this information would not have been readily
available. Several posters to the stylesheets newsgroup
contributed valuable information, as well. Thanks to all of them,
and special thanks to Björn Höhrmann, Ian, David, Alan,
Daniel, Howard, Jukka, Roland, Liam, and Shelley.